Blog o cestovaní nielen po Japonsku / Travel blog

5. May 2016

Takaosan – Golden Week

EN: It is still busy Golden Week over here in Japan, but me and several of my classmates decided to climb up the Mount Takao (高尾山), which I had mentioned on my blog few times in the past, including the New Year’s visit and welcoming of the first daylight in this year. The mountain usually gets particularly busy in this time, when most of the Japanese are off from their work and with the overly positive weather forecast it was clear that it would be full of tourists. Which it did. But the climb was definitely worth it, fortunately we decided to leave at 9AM from Takaosanguchi station and we were at the peak of the mountain at around 11:30AM, so we avoided the biggest heat and also the massive wave of tourists, who were arriving to the observation platform in the time we were already leaving. We tasted soba noodles in local soba restaurant and enjoyed the cold beer, returned back home at around 3PM. Great day. Random video here.